Battle Royale

Movie Cult

Showings

The Roxy Theater Screen 2 Sat, May 18, 2019 8:00 PM
Film Info
Series:Movie Cult
Rating:R
Run Time:123 min
Release Year:2000
Country:Japan
Genre:Science Fiction/Thriller
Original Language:Japanese
Subtitles:Subtitled
Format:Digital
Cast/Crew Info
Director:Kinjji Fukasaku
Cast Members:Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Takeshi Kitano

Description

Movie Cult

Join us every Saturday Night and enjoy the finest cultiest flicks Missoula has to offer! Once a month we let you, the community, help decide what the next month's line up will be.


A long-unavailable underground hit that anticipated The Hunger Games novels by eight years, veteran director Kinji Fukasaku's epically violent, still-controversial and deeply influential genre masterpiece takes place in a dystopian alternate universe. In the near future, the economy has collapsed, unemployment has soared, and juvenile crime has exploded. Fearful of its nation's youth, the Japanese government passes The BR Law: each year, a 9th grade class is sent to a remote island where they will be locked into exploding neck collars, given a random weapon, and forced to hunt and kill each other until there is only one survivor left. Battle Royale follows one such class, with an ice-cold performance from Takeski Kitano as the group's teacher.